LA4007:03
Succession
Townsville, Cairns
Prerequisites: LA3002 LA3011 LA3012 LA3013 LA3014
26 lectures, 6 tutorials. July intensive block mode.
Available to level 4 LLB students or combined degree students.
Testate succession – wills, testamentary capacity, personal representatives, executors, grants of probate, administration of assets, legacies, payment of debts.
Intestate succession - the rules applicable to total and partial intestacy; grants of letters of administration.
Testator’s family maintenance - claims of family and dependants to support from the estate of the deceased and the power of the court to vary a will.
Learning Objectives:
- to introduce students to the law of succession, the problems associated with the branch of the law and proposals for reform.
Assessment by essay (20%); final examination (80%) (subject to variation).